1944
*
*
*
*
*
1945
*
*
*
27.
Friday’s Child
1946
Feb
Putnam
Regency
28.
The Reluctant Widow
1947
Feb
Putnam
Regency
29.
The Foundling
1948
Mar
Putnam
Regency
30.
Arabella
1949
May
Putnam
Regency
31.
The Grand Sophy
1950
Oct
Putnam
Regency
*
*
1951
*
*
*
32.
The Quiet Gentleman
1952
Mar
Putnam
Regency
33.
Cotillion
1953
Feb
Putnam
Regency
34.
The Toll-Gate
1954
Aug
Putnam
Regency
35.
Bath Tangle
1955
Aug
Putnam
Regency
36.
Sprig Muslin
1956
Aug
Putnam
Regency
37.
April Lady
1957
Aug
Putnam
Regency
38.
Sylvester
1958
Mar
Putnam
Regency
39.
Venetia
1959
Feb
Putnam
Regency
40.
The Unknown Ajax
1960
Apr
Putnam
Regency
*
*
1961
*
*
*
41.
A Civil Contract
1962
Jan
Putnam
Regency
42.
The Nonesuch
1963
Mar
Dutton
Regency
43.
False Colors
1964
Feb
Dutton
Regency
Pistols for Two3
1964
Aug
Dutton
Regency
**
An Infamous Army
1965
Mar
Dutton
Regency
**
The Spanish Bride
1965
Mar
Dutton
Regency
44.
Frederica
1965
Oct
Dutton
Regency
**
The Corinthian
1966
Jan
Dutton
Regency
**
These Old Shades
1966
Aug
Dutton
18thC
45.
Devil’s Cub
1966
Aug
Dutton
18thC
46.
The Conqueror
1966
Oct
Dutton
Medieval
47.
The Convenient Marriage
1966
Dutton
18thC
48.
Regency Buck
1966
Dutton
Regency
49.
Black Sheep
1967
Mar
Dutton
Regency
**
The Talisman Ring
1967
Aug
Dutton
18thC
**
Faro’s Daughter
1967
Aug
Dutton
18thC
**
Royal Escape
1967
Nov
Dutton
17thC
**
The Masqueraders
1967
Nov
Dutton
18thC
**
The Black Moth
1968
Mar
Dutton
18thC
**
Beauvallet
1968
Mar
Dutton
16thC
50.
Powder and Patch
1968
June
Dutton
18thC
51.
Cousin Kate
1968
Nov
Dutton
Regency
52.
Duplicate Death
1969
June
Dutton
Crime
53.
Detection Unlimited
1969
Aug
Dutton
Crime
**
Envious Casca
1969
Dutton
Crime
**
The Unfinished Clue
1970
Feb
Dutton
Crime
**
Death in the Stocks
1970
Mar
Dutton
Crime
**
1970
Aug
Dutton
Crime
54.
Charity Girl
1970
Oct
Dutton
Regency
**
No Wind of Blame
1970
Nov
Dutton
Crime
**
Behold, Here’s Poison
1971
June
Dutton
Crime
55.
Lady of Quality
1972
Oct
Dutton
Regency
**
They Found Him Dead
1973
Dutton
Crime
**
Why Shoot a Butler?
1973
May
Dutton
Crime
*
*
1974
*
*
*
56.
My Lord John
1975
Nov
Dutton
Medieval
**
Simon the Coldheart
1979
Nov
Dutton
Medieval
* A year without a book
** A reissue of an earlier title
1 English title Death in the Stocks
2 English title The Corinthian
3 An anthology of short stories
GEORGETTE HEYER’S (KNOWN) SHORT STORIES
1.
A Proposal for Cicely
1922
Sept
The Happy Mag
2.
The Little Lady
1922
Dec
The Red Magazine
3.
Bulldog and the Beast
1923
March
The Happy Mag
4.
Linckes’ Great Case
1923
March
The Detective Magazine
5.
Acting on Impulse
1923
June
The Red Magazine
6.
Whose Fault Was It?
1923
August
The Happy Mag
7.
Love
1923
Nov
Sovereign Magazine
8.
Chinese Shawl
1924
Feb
Tvidenskronder
9
The Old Maid
1925
August
Woman’s Pictorial
10.
On Such a Night
1935
Broadcast on 2GB Sydney 24/11/1937
11.
Runaway Match
1936
April
Woman’s Journal
12.
Incident on the Bath Road
1936
May
Woman’s Journal
13.
*Hazard
1936
June
Woman’s Journal
14.
Lady, Your Pardon
1936
Australian Women’s Weekly
Pursuit
1939
Nov
Queen’s Book of the Red Cross
16.
*Snowdrift
1948
Nov
The Illustrated London News
17.
*Full Moon
1948
Nov
Woman’s Journal
18.
*Pistols at Dawn
1949
Dec
Woman’s Journal
19.
*Night at the Inn
1950
March
John Bull
20.
*A Husband for Fanny
1951
Nov
The Illustrated London News
21.
*Bath Miss
1952
Sept
Good Housekeeping
22.
*The Pursuit of Hetty
1953
June
Good Housekeeping
23.
*The Duel
1953
Feb
Good Housekeeping
24.
The Quarrel
1953
Dec
Everywoman
25.
*Pink Domino
1953
Dec
Woman’s Journal
26.
*A Clandestine Affair
1960
Magazine title unknown
* Indicates those stories included in the Georgette Heyer anthology Pistols for Two (1960) in which the 1953 short story “The Pursuit of Hetty” was renamed “To Have the Honor”
HEYER-RELATED ARCHIVES
1890s–1970s
Heyer and Rougier family photo albums, Heyer Estate
1902–1908
Georgette Heyer’s Baby Book written by her mother, Sylvia Heyer, Heyer Estate
1920s–1974
Georgette Heyer’s Notebooks & Private Papers, Heyer Estate
1921–1944
Correspondence with the Society of Authors Archive (11 letters), The British Library
1923–1945
The Georgette Rougier (Heyer) Correspondence, McFarlin Collection, The University of Tulsa (251 letters), Oklahoma, USA The John Hayward letter, King’s College Library Archive (1 letter), Cambridge, UK
1937
Lady Juliet Townsend Letter (1 letter), privately held
1937–1970
The Frere Family Archive (93 letters), privately held
1941–1942
Alice Heyer Bowden, My Memoir, privately held
1942–1974
The Dorothy and Dmitri Tornow letters (12 letters), privately held
1943–1963
The Heinemann Correspondence, Random House Archive (326 letters)*, Northamptonshire, UK
1946–1951
The Rosemary Marriott Archive (6 letters), privately held
1948–1951
The William Heinemann Ltd correspondence in the Meanjin Archive, Special Collections, Baillieu Library, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1952
Arnold Gyde’s diary extract, privately held
1950–1952
Duke University, William R. Perkins Library Archive (28 letters), North Carolina, USA
1952–1959
Incidental Hodder & Stoughton correspondence (8 letters), Reading University, Reading, UK
1957–1974
The Isabella Banton letters (14 letters), privately held
pre-1960
The Random House Archive (4 additional letters)
1962–1974
Correspondence between Georgette Heyer and Joyce Weiner (163 letters)*, privately held
1963
Derek Priestley, notes on conversations with Georgette Heyer, in the Heinemann Correspondence, Random House Archive
1963–1974
The Max Reinhardt Archive (414 letters)*, Reading University, Reading, UK
1963–1984
The Jane Aiken Hodge Archive, privately held
post-1963
The Bodley Head Archive at Reading University (miscellaneous)
1966 & 1973
Enid Chasemore letters (2 letters), privately held
1970
The Roy Pfautch Letter (1 letter), privately held
1972
The Mrs. Matthews letter (1 letter), privately held
* Indicates two-way correspondence. Within these collections there are 164 Heyer letters in the Heinemann Correspondence, 64 letters to Joyce Weiner, and 153 Heyer letters in the Max Reinhardt Archive. To date there are over 800 Georgette Heyer letters extant.
Additional material was drawn from:
The Aldington Archive, Random House Archive, Northamptonshire
The King’s College Hospital Archive, London
The King’s College School Archive, Wimbledon
The Lancing College Archive, Sussex
The Marlborough College Archive, Wiltshire
The William Heinemann Ltd correspondence (1948–1951) in the Meanjin Archive, University of Melbourne Archives
The Frank Heyer papers, privately held
The Sidney Sussex College Archive, Cambridge
The Victoria & Albert Museum Archive, London
The Wimbledon Literary and Scientific Society Archive
Elsie Kimball Archive held by Mt. Holyoke College, Massachusetts
Arnold Gyde Diary Extracts
George MacDonald Fraser letters to the author
Jane Mander Letters held by the Auckland Central City Library, New Zealand
The Fiction Mags Index Internet database
PERMISSIONS
I am grateful to all those who gave their permission for the use of quotations and photographs. All Georgette Heyer letters, novels, and short stories are used with the permission of Sir Richard Rougier and the Heyer Estate. Correspondence with the Society of Authors 1921–1948, Add.63262 ff.185–200, British Library MS collection, London, used with the permission of the Society of Authors. The Georgette Rougier (Heyer) Correspondence used with the permission of the McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa. John Hayward Papers, JDH/26/45 from the Archives Center, King’s College, Cambridge, used with the permission of King’s College Cambridge. The Juliet Townsend letter used with permission of Lady Townsend. The Georgette Heyer letters in the Frere Family Archive used with permission of the Frere family. The Dorothy & Dmitri Tornow letters used with the permission of Sally and Stephen Tornow. The Heinemann Corres
pondence used with the permission of Random House. Letters to Clem Christesen at Heinemann Australia from the Meanjin Archive used with the permission of the University of Melbourne, Baillieu Library, Special Collections. The Rosemary Marriott Archive used with permission of Ro Marriott. Barbara Cartland plagiarism letters from the William R. Perkins Archive, Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library, Duke University Libraries, used with the permission of Duke University. Isabella Banton letters used with the permission of Pam Stevenson, Tim Brearley, and Marianne Sunier. The Max Reinhardt Archive used with the permission of Mrs. Joan Reinhardt. Material from the Jane Aiken Hodge Archive and quotations from The Private World of Georgette Heyer used with the permission of Mrs. Jane Aiken Hodge. The Roy Pfautch letters used with the permission of Mr. Roy Pfautch. Excerpts from the Elsie Kimball papers, 1919–ca.1950: MS 0562, used with the permission of Mt. Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections, Massachusetts. George MacDonald Fraser letter extract reproduced with the permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd., London, on behalf of the Estate of George MacDonald Fraser. Extracts from Arnold Gyde’s diary used with the permission of Dr. Humphrey Gyde. Excerpt from Marjorie Garber’s Vested Interests used with permission of the Copyright Clearance Center. Dr. Jonathan Ray’s thesis on Albany used with his permission. Elizabeth-Ann Malden’s tribute to Sir Richard Rougier used with her permission. Quotations from John St. John’s William Heinemann: A Century of Publishing 1890–1990 used with permission of Random House. The excerpt from Women Behind Bars in Romania by Annie Samuelli used with the permission of Taylor & Francis publishers (for Frank Cass & Co.). Excerpts from the Petticoat interview with Cilla Black used with the permission of IPC Media. Excerpts from Australian Woman’s Day and Australian Women’s Weekly used with the permission of Australian Consolidated Press. Joanna Cannan’s photograph and excerpts from her book No Walls of Jasper and the extract from Fair Girls and Gray Horses used with the permission of Mrs. Josephine Pullein-Thompson. Access to the Richard Aldington Archive at the Random House Archive UK (© The Estate of Richard Aldington) granted with the kind permission of the Estate of Richard Aldington c/o Rosica Collins, London. Photograph of Georgette Heyer by E.O. Hoppé reproduced and supplied with the kind permission of The E.O. Hoppé Estate collection. Photograph of Georgette Heyer by Howard Coster reproduced with the kind permission of the National Portrait Gallery, London. Photograph of A.S. Frere and Max Reinhardt by Desmond O’Neill reproduced with the kind permission of Dominic O’Neill.